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Former doorstep lender hit by £52m in accounting errors
It was once a company familiar on every council estate in the country. The agent from “the Provi” dispensed cash loans and collected weekly repayments from millions of households excluded from mainstream banking. Provident Financial was a FTSE 100 company …